Title & Author:

20th Century Landscape / [presented by] Michael Ellison.

Publication:

London, England : Pidgeon Digital, 1995.

Description:

1 online resource (1 video file (30 minutes)) : sound, color

Notes:
Nature Takes Over Derelict Land -- University Of York, Heslington Hall, By RMJM -- Memorial Grove, Mindelunden, Denmark, By Axel Anderson, 1950 -- Albertslund, Denmark -- Old People's Home, Denmark -- Louisiana Museum, Humlebaek, Denmark, 1958. Landscape, Agnete Petersen -- Garden Festival Park, Cologne -- Prospect Park, Brooklyn, New York, By Frederick Law Olmsted -- Museum Of Modern Art Garden, New York, By Philip Johnson -- Johnson House, New Canaan, Connecticut -- General Motors Technical Centre, Warren, Detroit, USA, By Eero Saarinen, Thomas Church & Alexander Calder.

Summary:

Michael Ellison, who at the time of this talk was President of the Landscape Institute in the UK, wanted to be an architect but, believing that "the way you group things is much more important than individual objects", he became a landscape architect after training at London University's planning school, but he retains an abiding interest in architecture. His work experience has included a year with RMJM's York University team, a short period on the landscape team at Wisconsin University, and around four years on the CLC's Expanded New Towns programme, before he joined the British government's Property Services Agency in 1978. Recently the Agency passed into the hands of Tarmac Ltd. where at the time of this talk he was building up an in-house team and attaching small practices to the Agency project by project. His talk is full of amusing asides and anecdotes, and is an account of visits to some of his favourite parks and gardens, notably in Holland. UK, Denmark, Germany and the USA.

Subject:

Landscape architecture.
Architecture du paysage.

Added entries:

Ellison, Michael, narrator.

Twentieth Century landscape